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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

I realized Christmas might have become too commercialized when I sucker-punched that old guy in the Target electronics section. ("Hands off the XBOX KINECT, Gramps!!!!") Sure, he was just buying batteries for his hearing aid, but it made me think: maybe we've all become too materialistic around the holidays.

Reader Comments (41)

Is that a censor bar on the first cake? They should put one on the UFC guys-- it's one thing when the fight's in motion, but I don't know if that's the exact moment I would have locked in on to depict in cake...

Happy Festivus! Guess I'll spend the rest of the day working out my grievances at home. ;)

wv: merhyogi-- "Come here, Yogi," as pronounced by Boo-Boo after consuming all the booze found in that last pic-a-nic basket.

OMG Jen and John, I totally have to write this to you. First off, please don't think I'm mad, because I'm not. But this IS kind of funny.

The UFC cake is mine. Uh huh, that's right. One of your regulars. However, the men were NOT made by me. They were made by my partner who knows nothing about cakes and is not crafty. I did that cake to take to a friend's house who gets a lot of the UFC PPV's. My partner was upset and wanted "To contribute something to the cake." so I had him make the fighters. I think your comments are really funny though. So this is NOT a request to have the cake taken off your post. :) But, I did want to explain it to you.

(and yes, the cage is kinda cheesy, but really, short of piping SugarVeil, which I had never heard of at the time, I had no idea how to do it.)

What a naughty pole dancing mermaid! (she'd better watch what she says...)

Why does Mrs. Grinch have such kissy lips and ghostly sideburns?

Ah, see! I knew we'd find some Festivus spirit! so many insult cakes have come before...(*sniff* they're so awesome!)

UFC is pretty scary. I feel like a voyeur watching a "wrestling" match between a at some sort of gay night club with Stumpy, the mohawk wearing stud with his butt duct taped together. meanwhile--are those TWIX candy bars holding up the fence?

"Come Home Dad Mom is Off the Juice"--I can't decide if it's disturbing or perplexing? sending Dad a cake to come home? to announce his lush significant other is no longer a lush? or that's she's kicked a fruit juice habit? why would this drive him away, the anti-liquid coward?

Happy Festivus. Now to my s-i-l who will air grievances about my m-i-l (and vice versa).

Trevor: I love your explanation but it raises a few more questions. Why was your partner upset? Does he dislike ultimate fighting? Did molding the "wrestlers" help him feel better? I hope so. They certainly made my day.

I like the twix posts around the ring. They're efficent and yummy.Susan

@Siouxzr: He didn't want the cake to be made only by me. He wanted to be able to show up to the party and say that he contributed as well, so I let him make the figures. He enjoyed himself, and the hostess liked them so much she actually saved them. everyone got a good laugh out of them as intended. And no, both he and I like UFC.

@Fluffy Cow: Well, there wasn't much to really explain. Friends were having a UFC fight night and invited us over, so I made a cake. I had just started doing cakes, and I was looking for any excuse I could find to make one. UFC fight night seemed like a fine idea.

"Tinsel" is a rather well done cake. I don't think it technically counts as a wreck, other than the pole is supposed to be undecorated for Festivus!

I didn't realize that M&Ms were six-sided! But at least Green was recognizable

Wow, I don't think even the most delicious cakes in the city would make up for inscriptions like that... they're too nice to be truly "just joking".

Love the UFC cake-- that's exactly how I see wrestling (or football pile-ups for that matter). And @Trevor's explanation was even better! (legs falling off from the exertions/excitement gives a whole new meaning to "I'm really into you!")

That last one was just sad. Although one wonders why the cake for Dad is pink!

Lol those "wrestlers" are surrounded by poo poles. Yuck! And whatever that green faced cake thing is it should be for Halloween cause it scared me. Now I will be laughing like a hyena just looking at these cakes again.